Olivia Wilde Considering Linda Lovelace Biopic

Posted by on July 30th, 2011   Filed under: Biopic, Rumours
Source: E! Online

Audiences are getting ready to see quite a bit of Olivia Wilde this year as her new films Cowboys & Aliens and The Change-Up are unleashed into theaters, plus she has In Time and Butter coming out over the next few months. With her celebrity status steadily climbing, Wilde can now afford to be a little more picky with her future roles. One role that she’s now considering is the lead in an upcoming Linda Lovelace biopic, simply titled Lovelace. For the uninitiated, Linda Lovelace was most famous for her work in porno films, effectively bringing X-rated material into the mainstream with films like Deep Throat. Wilde is quoted as saying it would be a “tremendous honor” to play the 1970s star and described her as a “fascinating woman.” The film will be directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the team behind Howl.

Lovelace is not to be confused with Inferno, the other Linda Lovelace film in development starring Malin Akerman. It’s one of the more odd cases of Hollywood doubling up on movies with similar content, but I’m sure audiences will be, uh…grateful? Maybe not. As for Wilde, she certainly appears set for some big opportunities in the next few years and Lovelace could be the kind of film where she proves herself to critics with a challenging role. What are your thoughts on Olivia Wilde’s work thus far and do you see her taking on this type of material?



  • Fatbologna

    Really? Linda Lovelace really wasn’t all that interesting beyond pioneering a modern porn staple. Why all the heat on a biopic about her? The situation surrounding Deepthroat was definitely pretty interesting but Lovelace herself was just, in the parlance of the time, “Street Meat”.

  • el ohroy

    Linda Lovelace wrote a book about the horror of that business. And she is famous for making beastiality movies with dogs. Wonder if that will be in the film?

  • Jonny Ashley

    they’re gonna have to toss her down the ugly tree a couple times to make her more convincing than that

  • Mark

    @ jonny ashley

    they’re gonna need an ugly forest to make her look like linda lovelace

  • Kasper

    Mmmm, Olivia Wilde. I sure would like to see more of her.

  • Napalm

    ^ I agree.

    Also, Aaron knows how to pick photos for news post ;)

  • New episode of House:

    Nurse, “The patient’s name is Lovelace, something is clogging her throat!”

    House, “Hmmmmmmm”

  • Anthony

    If you type “Linda Lovelace” in a google image search with the safesearch off, you get bestiality photos with chicks performing oral sex on what appears to be a horse pretty high up in the search.

    Just thought i’d warn those who were curious like I was.

  • Steve

    I’d be pretty disappointed if this came to pass. Wilde is a great actress and I’m really uninterested in seeing her play a pornstar. Plus this will mean more time away from House, and that would upset me deeply.

  • KeithTalent

    Hopefully they will do a special screening of the film projected on her forehead. Good lord.

  • Maopheus

    I’m really wary and dubious of mainstream movies that cover the porn industry. Unless it’s something like Boogie Nights, which evokes a period in time but doesn’t attempt to be historically accurate, I think it’s all a big tease really. Wasn’t Lindsay Lohan attached to the other Lovelace movie? I suppose there is some material worth mining in regard to the morality of the industry and the effect it has on the people. But really how many people are going to be watching this movie for that, and how many people are going to be watching to see Olivia Wilde get naked? I think a whole lot more of the latter.

  • Sawhim

    Some things never change. Just the names change.